THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929

Out of the White House last week came a recommendation for yet another
commission of investigation. This time President Hoover asked
Congress in a special message to help solve the Prohibition
Enforcement problem by appointing a joint committee to study it.

No one
had forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the
transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department
of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome
question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission
and...